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...absurdity of the plot, the shallowness of the characterizations. Lawrence Harvey's agent is the tough, glib guy with a tiny bit of feeling for his mistress. Success corrupts him, he forgets his woman, mistreats Bongo, recites lines that would be rejected by a third-rate television script writer. His mistress raises her voice only twice, and remains loyal...
Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the sprawling bestseller about Israel into a stirring if lengthy (four-hour) movie...
...Spyros, free use of their archives and buildings-including the exquisitely ornamental papal throne room of Assisi's 12th century basilica. The Franciscans' only restriction: no women within the cloister of San Damiano (originally a convent built by Francis for St. Clare), thus requiring the stationing of script girls in remote-control trailers a mile from...
Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the rambling bestseller about Israel into a stirring, four-hour epic...
Despite its needlessly bloodthirsty climax-the machinist, like Wotan, gives up an eye to gain his triumph-The Angry Silence is a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind. Guy Green's direction is sure, direct, forceful. Bryan Forbes's script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only...